Approved Species JS-STL

[Jak Sandrow]

OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

• Intent: To create a tough custom plant, able to be grown by Jak
• ​Image Credit: Image found here, edited
• Canon: N/A
• Links: Bamboo as steel replacement, Bamboo (wiki)

GENERAL INFORMATION

• Name: JS-STL
• Homeworld: None, created on Ithor, on The Farm
• Other Locations: Can be grown on any planet with carbon dioxide, preferably in a warm, moist atmosphere and nutrient-rich soil
• Classification: Evergreen flowering plant
• Average Growth Cycle: 2 months (4 months till harvest-able)
• Viability: Requires carbon dioxide, partial sunlight, nutrient-rich soil. Moist and warm atmospheres are preferable but not necessary.
• Description: JS-STL is a fibrous, evergreen, flowering plant, which grows very tall and is hollow within. The plant is twice as dense as regular bamboo, and has a tensile strength rivaling some metals.

PHYSICAL INFORMATION

• Average height: 35 m
• Average length: 30 cm diameter
• Color: Yellowish-green stem, green when dried
• Nutritional Value: None
• Distinctions: Larger and much faster-growing than common bamboo; genetically engineered

​Strengths:

• Like Bamboo - Extremely rapid growth allows for large crops to be available in short periods of time.
• High Yield - With a thicker and denser stem than common bamboo, JS-STL reaps more per crop.

Weaknesses:

• Burn, Baby Burn - Despite a denser stem, if untreated, this crop is highly susceptible to fire.
• Non-Reproducible - Like most plants engineered on the farm, it is incapable of reproduction.

HISTORICAL INFORMATION
The JS-STL is Jak's attempt at creating a high-tensile, highly durable form of plant fiber. Based on the previous JS-Hemp, the JS-STL is an attempt at creating a less flexible, more robust version of the same plant.


Similar to the JS-Hemp, the JS-STL requires no supervision once planted, and can grow stably by itself for 2 months to full maturation. After 2 months, the plant begins to set itself, maturing and stabilizing, becoming hardened and self-preserved.

 

[Jairus Starvald]

Under review.

 

[Jairus Starvald]

[member="Jak Sandrow"]

We had a brief discussion in the Codex about this submission and here's the gist of it:

You can submit a plant in the Codex, but a material needs to go through the Factory. That means you can say its strong enough for construction material- comparing its strength to actual materials like durasteel in manufactured forms? That is factory space.

So, if you want this to be a viable construction material for products, that will need a factory submission.

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Your choices are to either remove the last paragraph and strength comparisons to actual materials, submit it as a plant, then use that as a base for a factory sub. Or you could just immediately submit it in the factory as a synthesized material, which is seemingly what you are doing here anyway?

 

[Jak Sandrow]

[member="Jairus Starvald"]

I understand what you're getting at; I don't want to submit this plant as a construction material. This submission is for the plant itself, to be used in the future for construction material.

I have removed the last paragraph, and will be making a factory submission in the future using this plant as a base.

 

[Jairus Starvald]

[member="Jak Sandrow"]

Looks fine now, thanks for working with me here.

Pending secondary approval!

 

[Allyson Locke]

Description: JS-STL is a fibrous, evergreen, flowering plant, which grows very tall and is hollow within. The plant is twice as dense as regular bamboo, and has a tensile strength rivaling durasteel.

I request that this be made more vague until you've submitted it as a building material. It should be worded that it has the strength to rival some metals. [member="Jak Sandrow"]

 

[Jak Sandrow]

[member="Allyson Locke"]

Certainly;

Changed

• Description: JS-STL is a fibrous, evergreen, flowering plant, which grows very tall and is hollow within. The plant is twice as dense as regular bamboo, and has a tensile strength rivaling durasteel.

to

• Description: JS-STL is a fibrous, evergreen, flowering plant, which grows very tall and is hollow within. The plant is twice as dense as regular bamboo, and has a tensile strength rivaling some metals.

 

[Allyson Locke]

[member="Jak Sandrow"] Thanks! When you do submit it as a material we can make the edit to reflect that. Approved